In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimizes certain claims and political actions as "true" civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is 'made from above'.

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Politics & International Relations

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Civics & Citizenship

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Politics & International Relations

Civil Society Revisited
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction. Rethinking Polish Civil Society
Part I. Civil Society in Contemporary Poland
Chapter 1. Civil Society in Postcommunist Europe
Chapter 2. (Mis)understanding Social Activism in Poland
Chapter 3. Rethinking Civic Privatism in a Postsocialist Context
Chapter 4. Defining In/Defining Out
Part II. (De)legitimization of Civic Activism
Chapter 5. When Parents Become Activists
Chapter 6. On the Disappearing Mother
Chapter 7. Marginalizing Discourses and Activists' Strategies in Collective Identity Formation
Chapter 8. Voice and Insecurity
Part III. Civil Society Making
Chapter 9. Between Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 10. Ethnic Bonding and Homing Desires
Chapter 11. Mobilizing on the Extreme Right in Poland
Conclusion. Empirical and Theoretical Lessons from the Volume
Index

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